The Child Project, featuring gloATL and Sonic Generator

Daring, unique, and unconventional, contemporary dance company gloATL joins forces with Sonic Generator, new music ensemble-in-residence at Georgia Tech, for a performance based on David Lang’s the child project. gloATL choreographer and artistic director Lauri Stallings brings Lang’s work to life with KSU’s music students opening the program, performing works written by their peers.

Faculty Artist Showcase

February 13, 2013At 8 p.m.

Morgan Hall, Bailey Performance CenterFree admission

Kennesaw State’s music faculty is comprised of talented performing artists who hail from the nation’s top music schools and conservatories. With a combined wealth of knowledge and ability, these fine musicians collaborate to present a variety of new works by composers including David Lang, and KSU Composer-in-Residence Laurence Sherr

Sō Percussion

Can an amplified cactus be a musical instrument? SōPercussion thinks so. “Innovative” only begins to describe Sō Percussion, the Brooklyn-based percussion quartet who for over ten years has been turning conventional musical ideas on their head. The ensemble has initiated a number of collaborations with important composers, artists, and institutions, and is widely recognized in percussion and new music circles as an exceptional example of musical innovation.

Bang on a Can brings its polyrhythmic virtuosity and all-world versatility to the Beijing Modern Music Festival, celebrating the breadth of the genre-busting Bang on a Can sound with two boundary bending programs of music by co-founders and artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

Performed by the Bang on a Can Festival Ensemble, a veritable who’s who roster of cutting-edge performers on the New York new music scene from the annual Bang on a Can Summer Festival @ MASS MoCA, the first concert on May 18 features the Festival Ensemble joining forces with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra for David Lang's pierced, Michael Gordon's Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and a world premiere arrangement of Julia Wolfe's Big Beautiful Dark and Scary for six soloists and orchestra.

Bang on a Can brings its polyrhythmic virtuosity and all-world versatility to the Beijing Modern Music Festival, celebrating the breadth of the genre-busting Bang on a Can sound with two boundary bending programs of music by co-founders and artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

Performed by the Bang on a Can Festival Ensemble, a veritable who’s who roster of cutting-edge performers on the New York new music scene from the annual Bang on a Can Summer Festival @ MASS MoCA, the second concert on May 20 is an explosive program of chamber works: on the bill is Julia Wolfe's Girlfriend, David Lang's sweet air andthese broken wings, Michael Gordon's ACDC and Light Is Calling, and Ping Jin's A Shanty.

Choreographer Benjamin Millepied has made a name for himself as principal dancer with leading dance companies while simultaneously creating his own works including his latest artistic adventure: L.A. Dance Project.

It's not really a dance company; rather, it’s an artist collective, looking to present dance in all its forms. Benjamin Millepied has surrounded himself with artists from a broad range of origins, from the audiovisual world to the fine arts, taking classical dance outside its standard frontiers and to redefine the very notion of artistic collaboration.

At the peak of his career, between New York City Ballet and the Opéra de Paris, Millepied embarks on a new adventure.

New York-based choreographer Susan Marshall and her company tour the world premiere of Play/Pause. In an electric guitar-fueled evening of postmodern dance-theater, Marshall couples her intimate, structured choreography with the seductiveness of pop culture to explore our complex relationship to the media we consume.

Referencing the dance moves and sleek production values of popular music videos, Marshall’s choreography adds nuance to that high-gloss aesthetic while stripping away its context, rendering it both more profound and strange. A commissioned score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang—performed live by members of guitar quartet Dither and Mantra Percussion—animates this dialogue between the real and the virtual, in which bodies hover somewhere in between.